Needle Felting Tutorials for the people

It’s taken a while to get the courage to make this change. I love Hi-Fiber and the separation anxiety has kept me from making hard decisions. I can’t avoid it any longer, so here I am, letting you know: after many years of being your friendly neighborhood fiber pusher, I’ve decided to close up shop.

Although the shop has been a well-loved fiber resource, it has been an intensely-neglected business for longer than I care to admit. At long last I’ve decided to focus entirely on the other aspects of my artistic life… making, showing, teaching, tinkering, etc. (I will continue to wholesale, though. See the P.S. for details)

I still have quite a bit of wool and needles in stock, but when it’s gone, it’s gone. I’m offering you a coupon because I want this wool to become yours as quickly as possible. Also, I like you a lot.

The coupon code is BYEBYELOVEYOU. Use it here to get 10% off all orders of 3oz or more.
(Here’s info on how to use Etsy coupon codes – https://www.etsy.com/help/article/350)

The good news is that the free tutorials on this site will stay right where they are, and they will always be free. I told you, I like you… A LOT.

It’s been a treat to spread the fiber all over the world, see your creations, hear your feedback. Let’s always be friends, ok? Here’s a nifty place to find all of my social media links for your clicking pleasure: http://about.me/moxie.

Much love,

Moxie

P.S. Drop me a line if you are ever interested in wholesale/large orders of Corriedale or Merino, I’m happy to take on the role of your mega-fiber conduit. (Minimum order – 2 lb per color.)

When you write a craft book, you actually make all of those projects. If you’re me, your book had over 35 projects in it and when the book has done-been-written, you put all the projects in a nice box and put them on the shelf for a long time. Then, if you’re still me, you fret about what to do with all of them for even longer after that.

Today, I decided that I want YOU to have them. For real.

So, I have 19 felted goodies to give away, free gratis. Some big, some small, some sculptures, some jewelry, some toys, all of them made for “I Felt Awesome” by my two little hands.

How to get your hands on them:

Enter your name to win by leaving a comment below – tell me about your favorite needle felted creation, whether you made it yourself or saw it in a gallery or even online. If you’ve seen or read the book, tell me your favorite project… if you get picked, it’s possible you’ll get to have that very thing as your prize (no promises, but it’s possible).

I’ll draw 19 random winners on Monday, May 6th at 11am PST. (Sorry, but due to the cost of postage, I’ve got to limit this to folks in the US.) One entry per person, ok?

I grew up in the Bay Area, and have loved the Exploratorium since I was a little kid. I still think of it as one of my all-time happy-places. So when they asked me to come and play with them in The Tinkering Studio, it was like getting a call from my childhood hero and the answer was, of course, YES!

I’ll be doing hands-on, drop-in felting demos throughout the day on March 15 & 16 (hours TBA). The main event is Saturday, March 17th:

A collaboration between the Exploratorium, MAKE Magazine, and Pixar Animation Studios, Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local Makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where Makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and editor ofMAKE Magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

This month’s theme will be tools. Four Featured Makers will be interviewed in the McBean Theater between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., talking about their work and process, and taking questions from the audience.”

I’ll be one of the featured makers and I hope you’ll come out and play!

Beginning March 3rd, gallery hanahou will host a group show of needle-felting works by four artists who are shaping the medium in significant ways: Moxie, Hine Mizushima, Kit Lane, and Yoko Nomura.

Using wool and basic tools, these artists have created worlds and creatures that defy conventional ideas about the craft. The exhibition will be comprised of four mini solo shows that express each artist’s personal sense of humor, wonder, or adventure through soft sculpture.

WORKSHOP: Learn needle felting with 3D basics

In conjunction with the show, Moxie, artist and author of the book “I Felt Awesome,” will lead a beginners’ workshop in needle felting.

Come play with me, Portland! The unendingly awesome Powell’s is having me in for some fun times. I’ll be doing some felting for you, and I’m bringing some of the projects from the book for you to see all up close and personal!

If it’s what you’re into, I’ll totally sign a copy of my book for you. Actually, why should we limit ourselves?! I will sign a copy of ANYBODY’S book for you. How ’bout that!? How could you not be there?

This event is cosponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art.